Brassiere and similar garment



.May24, 1949. E WGLUCKm 2,470,847

BRASSIERE SIMILAR GARMENT Filed Feb.. 22, v194:5

ATTORNEY Patented May 24, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT lOFFICE BRASSIRE AND SIMILAR GARMENT Edwin W. Gluckin, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application February 22, 1945, Serial No. 579,188

2 Claims.

This invention relates to garments employing pockets with means for supporting the pockets upon the body of the wearer. More particularly, the invention deals with garments of this class employing supplemental breast supporting members as part of the pocket structure, and preferably arranged Within the pockets, the supporting members being what might be termed hammocks, by reason of the relatively free hanging and support thereof Within the pockets. Still more particularly, the invention deals with garments of the kind wherein the hammocks or supports have means adjustable coupling parts thereof in the pockets in controlling the positioning of the hammocks with respect to the pocket structures of the garments. The novel features ofA the invention will be best understood from the following description when taken together with the accompanying drawing, in which certain embodiments of the invention are disclosed, and in which the separate parts are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which:

Fig. 1 is a front perspective view of a brassire made according to my invention.

Fig. 2 is an inside view of the front portion only of the brassire shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view illustrating parts of the brassire in separated or expanded position to illustrate the -adjustable coupling of the hammock structure in'the brassire structure; and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the upper portion of one of the pockets illustrating the manner of coupling the shoulder strap with the brassire pocket and hammock.

In Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing is shown front and rear views of at least the front portion of the garment or brassire. In these gures, I and Illa represent two substantially similar pockets joined centrally of the garment, as indicated at Il. Attached to outer side portions of the pockets are side and back bands I2 and I3 detachably coupled, as seen at I4 in any desired manner, as is customary in garments of this type and kind. One of the bands, for example, the band I3 may include an elastic insert I5 to provide yieldable mounting of the garment upon the body of the wearer. At the upper central portion of each pocket is secured a strap or loop IB and I1 with which is adjustably coupled shoulder straps I8 and I9 through the medium of buckles 26 and 2l, the straps I8 and I9 being attached to the bands I2 and I3 at the rear portions thereof, as indicated at 22 and 23.

In the brassire as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, the pockets I0 and Illa are shown of a simple form, that is to say, composed of a single sheet of material in which is formed darts 24 and 25 to give breast-conforming contour to the pockets. It is here to be noted, however, that my invention is not particularly concerned with just how the pockets or cups of the garment are constructed.

In the present construction, the brassire also includes a body band 26 attached to the lower portions of the pockets and to the side bands I2 and I3, the latter being made sufllciently wide to accommodate outer sides ofthe pockets as well as the ends of the bands 26. I-Iere again it will be apparent that my invention is not limited to use in connection with brassires or other garments which include band portions or any other garment parts, as the invention is concerned primarily with the breast supporting pocket or cup area of the garment.

Arranged within the pockets or cups I0 and Illa are supplemental supporting members 21 and 28, which members may be termed, for sake of description, hammocks, in that they provide independent hanging type of supports disposed on each pocket or cup, and arranged to extend over the lower central and inner and outer side portions of the breasts when arranged therein.

The members 21 and 28 may be composed of any desired material, but are preferably composed of a pad like structure considerably heavier than the fabric of the pockets IIJ and Ia, and may have elastic properties or comprise a body of lastex. Upper edges 29 and 30 of the members 21 and 28 are preferably rounded to fit around the breasts at a point adjacent but beneath the nipples. Outer ends of the members have upwardly directed extensions 3| and 32 with which are connected supporting straps 33 and 34. Inner ends of said members have extensions and 36 with which other strap members 31 and 38 are connected. Upper ends of the strap members 33-38 and 34--31 are joined, as seen at 39 and 40, and to these joined ends are connected one end of the supporting straps or loops I6 and I1, the other ends of the straps or loops being joined to the upper ends of the pockets I0 and Illa. It will also appear that the straps I6 and I1 pass freely through .the buckles 20 and 2I in providing relative movement of the strap ends in independent support o'f the members 21 and 28 and the pockets Ill and Illa.

The structure of the members 21 and 28 and their supporting straps is shown most clearly in Fig. 2 of the drawing. The members I21 and 28 terminate short of the central coupling I I of adjacent pockets and these ends are joined by an elastic strap 4I the other ends of the members 2'I and 28 are joined to the outer edges of the pockets or to the bands I2 and I3, as seen at 42 and 43.

Aside from attachment of the members 21 and 28, as at 42 and 43, these members are hung freely within the pockets of the garment. However, in some uses of the garment, it will be desirable to'maintaini the -adjacentcoupled end of the members or the strap 4I thereof in predetermined position on the garment. To this end the inner surface of the coupling, as at I I, which may be in the form of a nishing tape,1will include va plurality of vertically spaced buttonholes or coupling bars 44 with which a hook'45 supported centrally of the lower edge portion ofk the member 4I is adjustably coupled. In this way, the height of the hammock units at the central front'portion of the garment maybe adjustably regulated.

elastic inserts therein; "However, they'may-'be so made, if the `members?I'Iffanl` ZB-Iare of non-extensible A'n'rateriah particularly when' it would be' desirable -"toy provide l`resiliencyv`l off the mounting in the Vhammocks in thegarment.

VThe hammocks maybesaid to take the primary I load of the 'breasts 'ini supporting the "same in raised: youthful #position-"andthe remainder of the'garmentv shaped' totSnugIy upon the supported breasts; it beingA understood" that the size of therpockets ofvcups as well as the members '21 and 28 willbe'ma'deto suitthe various cup sizes in dierentsizdgarments-of the *class under consideration.

Itwill also be 'apparent thatJ the attachments of the' hammocks' withthe' central lower' portion of the. garment also laid` 'in maintaining the hammocks yor the :adjacent'end portionsthereof snugly around "the breastsV and closely adjacent thebody of the wearer intermediate thelbreasts. In some l typesf garments where sizes can'be moredefinitelyand positively controlled, andparticula'rlyin tailored garments, theattachment between the strap 4 I ran'd'the central portion of the brassire `:may be made @permanent by stitching or otherwise. On-the otherhan'd bythe standpoint oradjustmentrany typeand kind of couplings ory fastenings.canbeemployed.

.In supporting membersor hammocks?! and 28 together withtheistraps'l33K--38," 34431, thestrap 4 Lmay be vsaidto constitute a breast supporting `unitadaptedto bebultiinto.anytype-or kind of garment. This unit may be built into the garment by the manufacturer, and from this A. standpoint 4soldas a unit article ofzmanfacture 'to diierent of each pocket, means at the outer end portion'l only of each support maintaining predeterminedl fixed positionl ofthe support on the poclet, the' remainder ofA each support being free, a curved strap structure at the upper portion of each pocket, said strap structure being coupled with the outer end portion of one support and the inner end portion of :an opposed support and freely movable in the pockets, a member coupling adjacent inner endportionsff'of said' supports,v and short strap loopsi coupingA upper portions *or said strap structuresand pockets: for hanging'the supports inconnection -witlr the pockets.l

2. A garment of the'class describedy comprising breast supporting pockets; means for supporting the pockets upon the body lorf-a'wearer'. anam- `mock-type support arranged'at the lower portion of each pocket, -means-atfthe-outer-endportion only or 4each-support rnaintaining'I predetermined fixed positionof thesuppoi'tf-Dn'the lpocket, the remainder of each support V'beingifree a`V curved strap structure u'at `-the upper Sportion "of leach pocket, saidstrap I 'structurebengfcoupled with the outerzendportionff one'support'and thel inner endl portion f-anf' opposed=support=and freely movable inthepockets-1ra.- 'membercouplingadja- `cent inner end portions fsaidrsupports,lshort strap" lloops 1 coupling" 'upperfportions f Isaid 'strap "f structures and pockets-fforhangingftheisupports in connection with"thepobltets.#andfmeans` 'adjustably vcoupling the member joining -adjacent inner ends of the supports with the garmentl-intermediate said'po'ckets.

REFERENGESf-GITED The i following "references"are- 'of record? in the file of this patent: Y 

